J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Small

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Path
  • New

• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Women
  • Nothing
  • Vote

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Never
  • News
  • Brand

• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Great
  • King

• There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Bad
  • Alcohol

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Laughing

• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Attitude

• To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Home
  • True
  • Trust

• What, if as said, man is a bubble.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro
  • Man
  • Said
  • Bubble

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength